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Hyptis suaveolens
This seed has some kind of sticky coating around it
Spotted on Oct 30, 2011
Submitted on Nov 5, 2011
4 Comments
I think you could be correct Nuwan. I've just found this extract from WikiGenes - Hyptis "The acidic polysaccharide from the seed-coat mucilage of Hyptis suaveolens is a highly branched ............." Not particularly knowledgeable in this area, but seed-coat mucilage would describe the sticky coating
Hyptis suaveolens ?
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/142...
PS. Don't know what the sticky glob is ;-)
It looks like it is related to: Family, Lamiaceae, Hyptis sp. http://lrm.nt.gov.au/weeds2/find/hyptis#... I can find things close but not exactly like your photo. Good luck Viv!